OOPSA high school buddy was the cook on the Impossible Dream until they ran it into the NW Channel marker in the middle of the night returning from the Bahamas.

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OOPSA high school buddy was the cook on the Impossible Dream until they ran it into the NW Channel marker in the middle of the night returning from the Bahamas.
Norine Rouse attended part of my NAUI ITC back in the day. Grand old lady.
I wasn't at UnderSeas Sports when Chuck started it, but I worked for the second owners for most of the time that they owned it. Who remembers Bryan and Mary Brooks and their kids? Most people thought I was one of their kids as well. Great memories.
I was also one of Slate's first customers, bought some stuff from him back in '78 when he first opened.
OK now I feel old!!!
Yes. And he worked for Amy Slate, then became a substitute captain for most of the KL dive shops as he built up his yacht surveying business. He's like a brother to me.Didn't [-]there [/-] their son work for Horizon Divers a few years ago?
My dad owned a dive shop back in the 60's early 70's in Key Largo at MM 101. The Wee Dive Shop. I was still young at the time, but I do remember Carl Gage, Steve Kline, Mel Fisher, Bill Filer. My dad (Jack Wickham) made Power Heads, Bang Sticks, Hawaiian Slings in the back of the Dive Shop. I also remember them all talking about the Atocha, back in the day. If I remember right Carl, had some sort of Sub in front of his shop. In 68 or 69 my mom was one of the models on the brochure for Pennekamp. Marlin Perkins once came into the shop to buy Power Heads. My dad had me work on breathing through a regulator in the water tank used to cool the tanks during refill. I went to Key Largo Elementry. We left in '75, because my dad wanted to move closer to his family. In my heart I never really forgave him for moving us, to of all places, LA, Lower Alabama.
Had turtle only once in Cozumel in 1973 with John Fletemyer, a local turtle conservationists at the time.
So who remembers when Force E was Nautilus Dive Shop?
Wow, mega flashback. A good buddy of mine used to tag turtles for John Fletemyer many moons ago. I used to help him out, really good times.
Me!So who remembers when Force E was Nautilus Dive Shop?
Yes, and I remember the huge storm that precipitated the fire.So, anybody ever do business at the shop on Oakland Park, before the big fire?